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You have some spectacular ideas for your WordPress site that needs fixing, but you’re not a coder. So, you need the services of a professional WordPress developer or designer. But where to begin? There’s an entire World Wide Web vying for your attention with what seems like an endless supply of developers and designers raising their hands saying, “Pick me! …
When you upload an image, WordPress does a lot of work behind-the-scenes so you can serve the image to your visitors. You can piggyback on this process and add custom image sizes to save yourself from having to resize images manually. In this post, I’ll explain how and why WordPress creates different image sizes. Then I’ll teach you how to …
The WordPress login page provides a generic looking one-size-fits-all solution for logging into WordPress. The only problem is customizing it can get a little awkward. In this comprehensive tutorial we show you how to modify the login screen to look exactly how you want. View original post at WPMU
Sometimes you want to mix things up a little when displaying posts on your site, maybe by making the list random instead of just showing the last five posts like every other site in town. The great news is that if you add a custom query to your page using the WP_Query class, you can […] View original post at …
If you’re creating variables to save values in your WordPress code, there may well come a time when it’s more efficient for you to use an array. An array (or more specifically, an array of variables) lets you save multiple pieces of data using just one variable. It means you can save multiple records in […] View original post at …
I’m a WordPress nerd and as a WordPress nerd, I hate seeing error pages on my site. It means I broke something, but at least I can fix it – visitors can’t and neither can yours, and that’s way worse than any error. That’s why creating your own custom error pages, including 404 pages, can help […] View original post at …
Want to take your WordPress game to a whole new level of coding mastery? Are you ready to really push your PHP skills and add even greater complexity and advanced functionality to your plugins and themes? Welcome to our latest series, WordPress Development for Advanced Users. This series follows on from our popular WordPress Development for Intermediate Users, which introduced you …
Object-oriented programming can be difficult to wrap your head around but is important to learn and understand if you want to grow your skills in plugin development. Last year, I wrote about using object-oriented programming (OOP) in plugins through a specific example. Since that article contained a lot of advanced code, I thought it would be a good idea to write …
Despite the fact WordPress has been around for a while, and the method of adding scripts to themes and plugins has been the same for years, there is still some confusion around how exactly you’re supposed to add scripts. So let’s clear it up. Since jQuery is still the most commonly used Javascript framework, let’s take a look at how …
